Feature-Length Synopsis

This is a kind of "Grumpy Old Women." A comedy caper complete with two love triangles, an evil toddler, a gun-toting Texan, and a flood.

PATTY (60s) is a no-nonsense, down-to-earth widow who has a predictable life and who likes it that way. But when ROSE (60s) - sexy, sizzling, and single - moves in next door to her, Patty's peaceful days are over. An old feud breaks out between the two grandmas, who haven't seen each other in decades. Back then, Rose slept with Patty's fiance, got pregnant, and eloped with the man - leaving Patty holding the bridal bouquet. And now it's payback time at last, as the grannies pick up where they left off - fighting over a man.

Act two begins when Rose goes after Patty's neighbor, sweet and trusting STERLING (60s), whom Patty has known for decades. Suddenly, Patty thinks that Sterling's a real catch and the only man for her. Soon, the grandmas yank their granddaughters into the fray - Patty's melodramatic CANDY (21) and Rose's plain-jane RUTH (24) - and pit the girls against one another in a bid for Sterling's son, a wealthy Texan named LANCE (32), who's recently widowed and trying to raise his wild, spoiled-rotten child (4) all by himself. If he doesn't find a new mommy soon for his little princess, he'd better get a whip and a chair!

The two love triangles - one between the grannies and Sterling, and the other between the granddaughters and Lance - create all kinds of havoc until Candy and Ruth get so fed up with their grannies' sexist behavior, at midpoint they decide it's time to teach their grannies a lesson. They recruit Lance to help them stage some phony love scenes worthy of a daytime soap opera, all with the goal of teaching the old gals this lesson - that a woman does not need a man to make her happy.

The girls' plan backfires. Convinced that their granddaughters are about to be sold into white slave trade, the grannies call an emergency truce and charge off to the rescue - on the night that a freak storm dumps seven inches of rain onto an unreasonably dry Seattle.

Act three begins when Rose and Patty get caught in a flood and have no way out. Believing she is about to meet her Maker, Rose finally admits to Patty that the fiance she stole from her, way back when, was a real jerk. After Rose's baby was born, he left her for another woman and she hasn't seen him, since! In return, Patty apologizes for treating Rose like a piece of garbage. Then, teary-eyed and penitent, the old gals prepare to die in each other's arms, when a helicopter rescue team arrives and pulls them both to safety.

In a surprise denouement, each of the liberated granddaughters ends up with a man they want and need - while the sexist grannies decide to take a hiatus from men. After all, a woman does not need a man to make her happy! (Or does she?)




 

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